I would find it helpful if it's possible in FME Desktop to find and replace a value within a selection of transformers (or within all transformers in a bookmark). Sometimes I copy a selection of multiple transformers to prepare data for a new feature type which needs to use the same transformers for pre-processing as a similar but slightly different feature type. However, I need to manually rename all the values, annotations transformer- and bookmark names in which the old feature type name is referenced.
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Find and replace within selection of transformers
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I was about to suggest that 'Find and Replace' in the XMLTemplater would be handy too... but I see that is already a thing!
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Nice work Safe... a stealth feature!
+7I was just about to propose this idea, but I found out you already posted it :)
By the way, did you know you can select and copy 1 transformer, open a text editor and paste the transformer in there as text? I sometimes do this if I need to replace a lot of attribute values in a TestFilter transformer for instance. Then select all and paste it back in FME. Be careful though!
I brought this up on a call with Dan and Mark today. I think the Find and Replace option would create great efficiency when managing attributes and updating downstream transformers.
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